Every Tuesday i'm trying to write for a Greek schientist. In my mind world would be totally different if these greek people have never been born. They are so many that is very hard to choose for which of them to write. And of course they are huge the scientific fields they work on. When i'm searching in the web and reading for their achievements i couldn't be more proud.
This week let's read about Sergio Oresti Kolokotroni, as he writes for his self, in koloko.net:
After studying biology in Montpellier and Paris, and a
PhD in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at
Columbia University, I embarked on a postdoc at the American Museum of Natural History's
Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, in
NYC, running the AMNH
DNA Barcoding Initiative for Conservationand working on plant phylogenomics and molecular evolution of pathogens. African forest elephants drew my attention in early graduate life. Since then, I have become interested in larger molecular evolutionary issues, conservation genetics, the applications of molecular ecology in endangered species and taxa involved in trade, comparative genomics of microbial wildlife and human pathogens, ancient DNA, and frameworks of evolutionary inference using biomolecular data using next-generation sequencing technologies in organisms, such as viruses, bacteria, basal metazoans, extinct mammals and museum historical specimens.
I continue collaborating with AMNH scientists Rob DeSalle, George Amato and Rick Baker as a Research Affiliate at the AMNH
Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics. In parallel, I work with colleagues from New York University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the New York Botanical Garden, and the AMNH under the umbrella of the
New York Plant Genomics Consortium to investigate the evolution of the seed plants using phylogenomic and molecular genetic approaches.
Well done patrioti! (This is my comment don't get comfused!).
